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by dsign 8mo ago
One in four people dies of cancer[^1]. Those are terrible odds as they are, but it gets worse because most people will go through their lives terrified of when it will be their time to enter that Russian roulette of agony, and because every
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by dsign 8mo ago
Jesus those things are big! > It was unreasonably heavy and made of cheap wood, with a neck like a carved baseball bat. Guitar necks need to withstand the tension of the strings, and any Russian-educated engineer tasked by the politburo
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by dsign 8mo ago
"Constructing a solid tower" from first principles is already super-human level. Sure, you can theorize a tower (sans the "solid") from first principles; there's a software architect at my job that does it every day
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by dsign 8mo ago
I'm eagerly awaiting for the return of handwriting and fingerprints on paper from ink-smeared fingers. Even have a box of nice paper and a few fountain pens ready :p . A bit more seriously though, I wonder if our appreciation of things
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by dsign 8mo ago
Ever worried that ChatGPT would rattle you to the authorities because there is such a thing as thought crime? For that reason, there is a vast, unexplored territory where abhorrent ideas and pornographic vulgarity combine with literary pr
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by dsign 8mo ago
Following your argument, another solution would be simply to enact measures to revert that "certain level of intelligence and awareness", and it seems that some countries are doing just that, if not exactly for the sake of reprodu
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by dsign 8mo ago
Look, I'm very negative about this AI thing. I think there is a great chance it will lead to something terrible and we will all die, or worse. But on the other hand, we are all going to die anyway. Some of us, the lucky ones, will die
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by dsign 8mo ago
> As someone well past "peak" fluid intelligence at this point, I always hate reading research like this. "Crystallized intelligence" and "emotional intelligence" are the consolation prizes no one really wan
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by dsign 8mo ago
Are we gonna get a cure for cancer and other devastating ailments? Because if AI gives us that, I'll let it destroy the workplace and boil the oceans. If not, I may be part of the crowd that goes to arson the data centers and hang the
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by dsign 8mo ago
> but also child assassins and bombs right now Yes, "interesting" is the right word. The government is talking about suspending cell phones for kids in connection to that. But honestly, what's really scary right now is how
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by dsign 8mo ago
> Corollary: our brains are basically the dumbest possible solution evolution could find that can host general intelligence. I agree. But there's a very strong incentive to not to; you can't simply erase hundreds of millennia
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by dsign 9mo ago
Hm, interesting. I use Kagi assistant with search (by Kagi), and it has a search filter that allows the model to search only academic articles. So far it has not disappointed. Of course the cynic in me thinks it's only a matter of time
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by dsign 9mo ago
I was planning to use Vimeo for some video hosting... I guess I'll have to self-host now. Oh well. At least this happened before I actually committed to buying a plan or even creating an account. With private equity poisoning the well
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by dsign 9mo ago
I don't know if I understand, grasp or agree with the geopolitics in your comment, but the weather in the north has indeed been getting nicer as of late; last summer I spent quite some time swimming in the beach without wearing thermal
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by dsign 9mo ago
My thoughts to the Iranian people, may they get what they need and deserve at a cost that is not too high. As in all conflicts, there's always a "fog of blame" where there isn't absolute certainty about who is right and
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by dsign 9mo ago
Slightly tangential, but I think that dogs have allowed for some bad things to happen to us. Like, they are available physically, so if you don’t want to go insane in this society of ours where you are allowed to have physical contact with
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by dsign 9mo ago
I don't think anybody understand how bad it really is. Forget about Greenland. Trump can say "give me Germany or I'll shutdown Azure ID" and we will have to give him Germany. At this point we are just praying that neithe
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by dsign 9mo ago
I've been working with paper sizes a lot for the last year, and I've rarely thought about the square root of two ratio and when I've, it has been just to amuse myself. However, knowing that to get an A5 piece of paper I just
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by dsign 9mo ago
> Also it is impossible to argue the cost of the war in Iraq was worth the benefit, even if we agree Iraq is in a better place now then it was under Hussein. But the Iraquis didn’t pay the military monetary cost (arguably they paid a dif
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by dsign 10mo ago
Let’s call them bureaucrats, but let’s not forget that their baseline is to be public servants, while that of product managers is to increase profits :-) . I think the system is working as intended though, because increasing profits can be
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by dsign 10mo ago
Actually, there's a sweet solution to the writing and art crisis we are inflicting ourselves with in our AI craze. I call it "the island". Just find a nice tiny islet somewhere, make a few houses, and rent them by the week to
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by dsign 10mo ago
Amazing! I always thought that the best we could do for targeted drug delivery was an adenovirus. But after seeing that parasite being only slightly bigger than a red blood cell, I think we can do better...
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by dsign 10mo ago
Even if they are a terrible idea, we should try it out. Specially if paid with private equity. Imagine the things we will learn, the STEM jobs this will create[^1], and the fact we will bootstrap other industries. [^1]: Provided that ChatG
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by dsign 11mo ago
I don't know, even ChatGPT 5.1 hallucinates API's that don't exist, though it's a step forward in that it also hallucinates the non existence of APIs that exist. But I reckon that every time that humans have been able to
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by dsign 11mo ago
I often think what would happen if somebody were to engineer some sort of quasi universal cure to cancer, and they were to do it out of desperation. Say the cure works, and then this person wanted for it to reach more people right now. Woul
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by dsign 11mo ago
I know for a fact that at least one of those companies also installs SIM cards in all their busses. The only difference is who could potentially use the backdoor, and yes Sweden seems slightly less poised to attack Norway than China. At lea
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by dsign 1y ago
Samsung does make really great ad-free computer displays... that's as much as I'm willing to buy from them.
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by dsign 1y ago
I was thinking the same yesterday. We should all be busy curing cancer, becoming young forever and building space habitats. Instead... It has to be said though that all the three things above are feared/considered taboo/cause for
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by dsign 1y ago
This is very well thought-out. But if regulation has such power, shouldn't we find better ways to use it? Yeah, I know, it's very hard to craft good legislation. In fact, there's this problem of agency : the will to have thi
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by dsign 1y ago
Why is it so impossible to get high quality images of anything space-related? Even when it re-enters and is photographed on Earth?

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